Development and Validation of Domestic Violence Scale for Intimate Partners

Objective: Development and validation of domestic violence scale for intimate partners in Urdu language.
 Study Design: Cross sectional survey research design purposive sampling technique were used.
 Place Duration Study: District Head Quarter Teaching Hospitals, Sargodha Gujrat Pakistan, from Feb 2020 to Dec2021.
 Methodology: The was based on 7 factors included neglect, psychological violence, spiritual verbal economic physical sexual violence. Initially, 305 statements developed the bases inductive deductive approaches. 202 out items selected after expert evaluation. Further, pilot study retained 131 items. Moreover, final administration data collected by using a self-reported questionnaire 654 married males females Pakistan (including 320 injured women victimized reported DHQ hospital Gujrat).
 Results: Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure Sampling Adequacy (KMO) Bartlett's Test Sphericity Pallant showed an acceptable value above 0.6 showing adequacy Domestic Violence Scale. KMO 0.955, CFI 0.948 with significant p<0.01 value. results indicated appropriate model fit indices fit. There high reliability (0.951) at 0.01 level significance. At end all analyses 25 reliable valid retain scale.
 Conclusion: is instrument measure